Ricciotti Garibaldi

Ricciotti Garibaldi (24 February 1847-17 July 1924) was a Brigadier-General of the Royal Italian Army, a deputy in the Italian Parliament, and a general of Greece. The fourth son of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Brazilian wife Anita Garibaldi, he continued his father's legacy as a leader of the volunteer Redshirts.

Biography
Ricciotti Garibaldi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on 24 February 1847, the fourth son of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Brazilian wife Anita Garibaldi. He was named for Nicola Ricciotti, an Italian revolutionary who had been executed by the Two Sicilies in 1844. He spent much of his youth in France and England, and he joined his father's Redshirts during their expedition to southern Italy in 1860-61. Garibaldi would later fight in the Franco-Prussian War as an Italian volunteer commander, and he captured the sole Prussian flag lost in the war at Dijon in 1870. After failing to create market enterprises in the United States and Australia, he returned to Italy and joined the Italian Parliament, serving from 1887 to 1890. In 1897, he volunteered his services to Greece, fighting against the Ottoman Empire. He died in Rome in 1924 at the age of 77.